The terms.

Effective September 27, 2026. Provenance is in beta and these terms will change as the product does. If we change something that materially affects you, we will tell you before it takes effect.

1. Who this agreement is with

Provenance is operated by James Proctor and Jae Gnazzo, a New York general partnership doing business as Provenance (“we,” “us”). These terms are a contract between you and us, and they apply whenever you use provenance.space or any part of the service.

If you do not agree with them, do not create an account. If you are using Provenance on behalf of an organization, you are confirming you have authority to accept these terms for it.

2. Accounts and access

Provenance is in beta. Creating an account is immediate. Projects and asks list as soon as they are posted. We remove posts that break these terms (section 8).

You must be at least 18 years old. You must use the name you actually work under. It does not have to be your legal name, but it must be yours and it must be stable. Provenance exists so that people can point to work they actually did with people who actually did it, and an account under an invented identity makes every record attached to it worthless. One person, one account.

You are responsible for your account and for keeping your password safe. Tell us at support@provenance.space if you think someone else has access to it.

3. What Provenance does

Someone posts an ask for help with something they’re building. You respond and do the work. They write up what you did; you confirm it’s accurate. That becomes a Record: a shared account of one specific piece of work, naming both of you. If you don’t confirm it, there is no Record.

A Record is a statement by one person about another person’s work. It is not a certification by us. We do not verify, audit, endorse, or vouch for the accuracy of anything anyone writes or confirms. What we guarantee is who said it and when, not that it is true.

4. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you write, upload, and attach. You are responsible for it, including for having the right to post it.

You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, display, and transmit your content for the purpose of operating and improving Provenance, and to show it to the people it is addressed to. That licence exists so the product can function. It does not let us sell your work or license it to anyone else.

A confirmed Record is public. It has an address anyone can open without an account, and we may show it on Provenance’s own public pages, including the front page, exactly as it was sealed: the same words, the same names, never edited or excerpted into something else. If you are named on a Record and do not want it on the front page, tell us at support@provenance.space and we will take it down from there. The Record itself stays where it is, at its own address, under section 6.

We do not train machine-learning models on your content, and we do not sell your content or your personal information.

5. Assisted drafting

Some parts of Provenance can draft text for you. When you use one of those, the text you provide is sent to Anthropic, our model provider, to generate the draft. Drafts are suggestions. You are responsible for what you actually post, including for checking that it is accurate before you send it. See the Privacy Policy for how that data is handled.

6. Records are permanent

This is the term most likely to surprise you, so it is stated plainly.

A confirmed Record is permanent. It survives the deletion of your account.

A Record belongs to two people. It is the other person’s account of work you did together, and it is often the only evidence they have that the work happened. Letting either party erase it later would mean one person can destroy the other person’s record of their own work, and it would make every Record on the platform conditional and therefore worth nothing.

So when you delete your account we remove your profile, your drafts, your messages, and your unconfirmed work, and we stop showing you as an active member. Confirmed Records remain, but your name stops showing on them: the entry stays as the other person’s account of the work, with your identity removed, and it stops linking to a profile that no longer exists.

If you believe a specific Record is inaccurate, was obtained improperly, or should not stand, section 7 is the path. Deleting your account is not that path.

7. Disputing a Record

Write to support@provenance.space and tell us which Record and what is wrong with it. We will contact both parties.

We can annotate a Record as disputed, and we can remove one entirely where it was created fraudulently, is defamatory, infringes someone’s rights, or breaks these terms. We will not remove a Record simply because one party has changed their mind about it. Where we can, we will tell the other party before we act.

8. What you agree not to do

Claim work you did not do, or confirm work that did not happen.
Create Records with yourself, through a second account, or by arrangement with someone in exchange for the same.
Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your relationship to a piece of work.
Post anything unlawful, harassing, hateful, or infringing.
Upload malware, scrape the service, or try to get around access controls or rate limits.
Use anyone’s personal information from Provenance for anything other than the work at hand.

The first two matter more here than they would elsewhere. A fabricated Record is not a rules violation against us, it is a lie told about another person in a place designed to be believed.

We may remove a project, an ask or a message that breaks these terms, and we will tell the person who posted it.

9. Suspension and ending your account

You can close your account at any time by writing to support@provenance.space. During the beta this is handled by a person rather than a button; we will confirm when it is done. Closing your account is subject to section 6.

We may suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, that we reasonably believe is fraudulent, or where continuing to host it puts other people at risk. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond.

10. No warranty

Provenance is in beta and is provided as-is. We do not promise it will be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors, and we do not promise that any particular piece of data will survive a failure. Do not use Provenance as your only copy of anything that matters to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, or lost data.

Our total liability to you for any claim relating to Provenance is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred US dollars. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Changes to these terms

We will post any changes here with a new effective date. For changes that materially affect your rights we will give you notice in the product or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use Provenance after that means you accept them.

13. Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction.

Questions: support@provenance.space.